Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in 46 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. Wikipedia has an entry on the beloved American author (Nathaniel Hawthorne), and also on this classic short story (Rappaccini's Daughter), first published in 1844. The current download is from the collection Mosses from an Old Manse (New York, 1882). Attached to the pdf document is a multilingual HTML verison. This suspenseful story has proto-science fictional and supernatural/ paranormal elements. Book digitized by Google and compiled by Robert Bedrosian. Internet Archive has a selection of works by or about Hawthorne.

Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini, eminent botanist, has a secret garden of poisonous plants, some he created himself. The plants, with their intoxicating fragrances and luminous flowers, are tended by his beautiful daughter, Beatrice, who has an organic connection to them.

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